Corinthian Raisin Cake Recipes

CORINTHIAN RAISIN CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350*.
• Cream butter and sugar together for 5 minutes.
• Add eggs, milk, sour cream, cloves, fruit peels, 1 tsp of cinnamon and 1/2 flour.
• In separate bowl, combine raisins baking powder and remaining flour.
• Combine 2 mixtures together.
• Pour into greased loaf pan.
• Bake 40 minutes.
• Combine confectioners sugar with remaining cinnamon,dust top of cake and serve.

BOILED RAISIN CAKE (CANADIAN WAR CAKE)

Steps:

• Mix raisins, butter, brown sugar, spices, and water in heavy saucepan.
• Place on high heat and bring to a boil.
• Lower heat and simmer for 6 minutes.
• Remove from heat and turn raisin mixture into a large bowl.
• Let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes.
• Meanwhile, combine flour, salt, and baking soda and mix gently.
• Add orange juice, vanilla and dry ingredients to cooled raisin mixture and beat well.
• Turn batter into a well greased 10 ¼" x 3 5/8" x 2 5/8" loaf pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 1 hour.
• Allow cake to cool in pan for 10 minutes.
• Remove from loaf pan and allow to cool completely on wire rack.
• Let cake ripen for at least one day before slicing.

RAISIN CRUMB CAKE

Steps:

• Mix first 3 ingredients -- rub into crumbs.
• Save 1 cup crumbs for top.
• Mix remaining crumbs with rest of ingredients.
• Place in pan and sprinkle 1 cup of crumbs on top.
• Bake for 40 min at 350.

GRANDMA'S TOUCH BOILED RAISIN CAKE

Steps:

• Mix sugar, butter, water, raisins, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves in pot and bring to a boil. Boil for 3 minutes and then cool.
• Mix flour and baking soda and add to cool raisin mixture.
• Spread into greased and floured 9" square. Bake at 350 F for about 25 minutes. The top of the cake will bounce back when lightly tapped. Be careful, over cooking will dry it out.
• Dust with icing sugar or frost with "Poor Man's Frosting" or forget it. It is great just on it's own.

OLD-FASHIONED RAISIN CAKE

Steps:

• In a food processor, combine the orange, raisins and pecans. Cover and process until mixture is finely chopped; set aside. , In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs and vanilla until well blended. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, beating well after each addition. Stir in orange mixture. , Pour into a greased and floured 10-in. flouted tube pan. Bake at 325° for 45-55 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool completely., In a small bowl, combine glaze ingredients until smooth; drizzle over warm cake.

BOILED RAISIN CAKE WITH CARAMEL FROSTING

Steps:

• Boil 1/2 cup raisins for 2 mins and retain 1/2 to 3/4 cup of the water.
• Cream butter, brown sugar and eggs.
• Mix dry ingredients.
• Add raisins and 1/2 to 3/4 cup of liquid.
• plus vanilla.
• Bake in greased 13 x 9 pan at 350 for 45 minutes.
• ICING:.
• Boil sugar, butter and milk for 2 mins, stirring constantly.
• Cool 30 minutes Add icing sugar and stir til smooth.
• Ice Raisin cake.

BOILED RAISIN CAKE

Steps:

• In saucepan. place raisins, brown sugar, hot water, shortening, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves.
• Bring mixture to boiling point, cover and let simmer for 6 minutes.
• Cool to lukewarm and add vanilla.
• Add soda to flour and mix.
• Combine flour and raisin mixture well.
• Bake in buttered 9X5" loaf pan in 325° oven for 1-1 1/4 hours. Cool in pan.
• This cake improves with keeping.
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• NOTE--It can be a challenge to find pastry flour. Even well-stocked supermarkets seldom carry more varieties than cake flour, all-purpose flour (9% to 12% protein), and bread flour. If you can't find pastry flour, you can mix your own by combining cake flour and all-purpose flour in a ratio somewhere between two parts cake flour to one part all-purpose and one part cake flour to one part all-purpose.

GRANDMA'S BOILED RAISIN CAKE

Steps:

• In a saucepan add raisins and water.
• Boil 15 minute.
• Drain keeping liquid.
• There should be 1 cup left over.
• If not add enough water to make 1 cup.
• Cool.
• Cream butter and sugar.
• Add egg and beat well.
• Add dry ingredients alternately with water.
• starting and ending with dry ingredients.
• Add vanilla and stir in raisins.
• Pour into greased 9"x11" or 9"x13" pan.
• Bake 350 for 30-35 minute.
• Icing:.
• Brown butter and brown sugar.
• Add water.
• Beat in icing sugar until spreading constituency.
• Ice with above recipe or dimple icing.